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• Prokaryotic diversity--magnitude, dynamics, and controlling factors. (Viewpoint)

  Authors:Vigdis Torsvik, Lise Ovreas, and Tron Frede ThingstadFrom:Science (Vol. 296, Issue 5570) Peer-Reviewed

  May 10, 20022,492 words Article There are probably millions of species in the microorganismal domains Bacteria and Archaea (the prokaryotes), and we are only just beginning to work out the basic principles governing their distribution and abundance in...

• Geographical variation in cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and their control in older women: British Women's Heart and Health Study. (Research Report)

  Authors:D.A. Lawlor, C. Bedford, M. Taylor, and S. EbrahimFrom:Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20035,607 words Article Objectives: To measure the geographical variation in prevalence of cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and their control in a nationally representative sample of older British women. Methods: Baseline survey using...

• Cultural Dispersal of Plants and Reptiles to the Midriff Islands of the Sea of Cortes: Integrating Indigenous Human Dispersal Agents into Island Biogeography

  Author:GARY PAUL NABHANFrom:Journal of the Southwest (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Autumn 20005,388 words Article Long before the eclectic biologist E. O. Wilson (1997) sought consilience through his attempts to unify biological and social sciences into one corpus of knowledge, Wilson collaborated with mathematical ecologist Robert...

• Architectural Design Drives the Biogeography of Indoor Bacterial Communities

  Authors:Steven W. Kembel, James F. Meadow, Timothy K. O'Connor, Gwynne Mhuireach, Dale Northcutt, Jeff Kline, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 29, 20146,906 words Article 1490LAuthor(s): Steven W. Kembel 1,2,3, James F. Meadow 2,3,*, Timothy K. O'Connor 2,3,4, Gwynne Mhuireach 2,5, Dale Northcutt 2,5, Jeff Kline 2,5, Maxwell Moriyama 2,5, G. Z. Brown 2,5,6, Brendan J. M. Bohannan 2,3, Jessica...

• Temporal patterns of settlement, recruitment and post-settlement losses in a rocky reef fish assemblage in the South-Western Mediterranean Sea

  Authors:F.C. Felix-Hackradt, C.W. Hackradt, J. Trevino-Oton, A. Perez-Ruzafa, and J.A. Garcia-ChartonFrom:Marine Biology (Vol. 160, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20138,202 words Report 1450LPost-settlement events can significantly alter the density distribution of settlers and subsequently the adult population structure. The temporal and inter-annual variability of settlement and the effects of mortality...

• Historical patterns of distribution in Pycnodontiform and Amiiform fishes in the context of moving plates

  Authors:Hugo Martin-Abad and Francisco Jose Poyato-ArizaFrom:Geologica Belgica (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20136,842 words Report 1270LAmiiformes and Pycnodontiformes are non-teleostean actinopterygians that were key members of most Mesozoic fish assemblages, appearing often associated throughout their fossil record. Their phylogenetic and...

• Trophic rank and the species-area relationship

  Authors:Robert D. Holt, John H. Lawton, Gary A. Polis, and Neo D. MartinezFrom:Ecology (Vol. 80, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  July 19998,029 words Article The species - area relationship may be the strongest empirical generalization in community ecology. We explore the effect of trophic rank upon the "strength" of the species - area relationship, as measured by z, the...

• Avifauna of a Paraguayan Cerrado locality: Parque Nacional Serrania San Luis, depto. Concepcion

  Authors:Mark B. Robbins, Rob. C. Faucett, and Nathan H. RiceFrom:Wilson Bulletin (Vol. 111, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 19996,019 words Article We recorded 181 avian species at the Paraguayan Cerrado site, Parque Nacional Serrania San Luis, depto. Concepcion, including the first record of Veery (Catharus fuscescens) for the country. We obtained further evidence...

• Macroevolutionary Dynamics and Historical Biogeography of Primate Diversification Inferred from a Species Supermatrix

  Authors:Mark S. Springer, Robert W. Meredith, John Gatesy, Christopher A. Emerling, Jong Park, Daniel L. Rabosky, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 16, 201213,860 words Article 1630LAuthor(s): Mark S. Springer 1 , * , Robert W. Meredith 1 , 2 , John Gatesy 1 , Christopher A. Emerling 1 , Jong Park 1 , 3 , Daniel L. Rabosky 4 , 5 , Tanja Stadler 6 , Cynthia Steiner 7 , Oliver A. Ryder 7 , Jan E....

• Statistical Process Monitoring with Biogeography-Based Optimization Independent Component Analysis.

  Authors:Xiangshun Li, Di Wei, Cheng Lei, Zhiang Li, and Wenlin WangFrom:Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Vol. 2018) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20185,600 words Article 1380LIndependent Component Analysis (ICA), a type of typical data-driven fault detection techniques, has been widely applied for monitoring industrial processes. FastICA is a classical algorithm of ICA, which extracts...

• Transient stability analysis by optimal location and tuning of SVC using biogeography based optimization

  Authors:K. Karthikeyan and P.K. DhalFrom:Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20161,440 words Article 1340LTransient stability enhancement via tuning and optimal placement of SVC is methodically evaluated in this paper. The performance study of SVC is executed in IEEE 14 bus test system for the enhancement of transient...

• A Molecular Phylogeny for Yponomeutoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Ditrysia) and Its Implications for Classification, Biogeography and the Evolution of Host Plant Use

  Authors:Jae-Cheon Sohn, Jerome C. Regier, Charles Mitter, Donald Davis, Jean-Francois Landry, Andreas Zwick, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 31, 201316,844 words Report 1450LBackground Yponomeutoidea, one of the early-diverging lineages of ditrysian Lepidoptera, comprise about 1,800 species worldwide, including notable pests and insect-plant interaction models. Yponomeutoids were one of...

• The effect of landscape heterogeneity on the probability of patch colonization

  Authors:Eric J. Gustafson and Robert H. GardnerFrom:Ecology (Vol. 77, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 19966,805 words Article The effect of landscape heterogeneity on the dispersal of organisms between habitat islands is poorly understood. Preferred pathways for dispersal (i.e., corridors), as well as dispersal barriers, are difficult to...

• The Biogeography of Putative Microbial Antibiotic Production

  Authors:Helene Morlon, Timothy K. O'Connor, Jessica A. Bryant, Louise K. Charkoudian, Kathryn M. Docherty, Evan Jones, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 23, 20157,950 words Article 1510LUnderstanding patterns in the distribution and abundance of functional traits across a landscape is of fundamental importance to ecology. Mapping these distributions is particularly challenging for species-rich groups...

• Extending SEQenv: a taxa-centric approach to environmental annotations of 16S rDNA sequences

  Authors:Ali Z. Ijaz, Thomas C. Jeffries, Umer Z. Ijaz, Kelly Hamonts, and Brajesh K. SinghFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 10, 20177,933 words Report 1550LUnderstanding how the environment selects a given taxon and the diversity patterns that emerge as a result of environmental filtering can dramatically improve our ability to analyse any environment in depth as well as...

• Multiple approaches to understanding the taxonomic status of an enigmatic new scorpion species of the genus Tityus (Buthidae) from the biogeographic island of Paraje Tres Cerros (Argentina)

  Authors:Andres A. Ojanguren-Affilastro, Renzo S. Adilardi, Rodrigo Cajade, Martin J. Ramirez, F. Sara Ceccarelli, and Liliana M. MolaFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 26, 20179,381 words Report 1410LTityus curupi n. sp., belonging to the bolivianus complex, is described from the biogeographically distinct area of Paraje Tres Cerros in north-eastern Argentina. We also present a molecular species delimitation...

• In the Wake of Invasion: Tracing the Historical Biogeography of the South American Cricetid Radiation (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae)

  Authors:Rafael N. Leite, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Francisca C. Almeida, Fernanda P. Werneck, Duke S. Rogers, and Marcelo WekslerFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 25, 201410,983 words Article 1630LThe Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) was greatly influenced by the completion of the Isthmus of Panama and impacted the composition of modern faunal assemblages in the Americas. However, the contribution of...

• Do the Historical Biogeography and Evolutionary History of the Digenean Margotrema spp. across Central Mexico Mirror Those of Their Freshwater Fish Hosts (Goodeinae)?

  Authors:Andres Martinez-Aquino, Fadia Sara Ceccarelli, Luis E. Eguiarte, Ella Vazquez-Dominguez, and Gerardo Perez-Ponce de LeonFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 7, 20148,259 words Article 1560LHost-parasite systems provide an ideal platform to study evolution at different levels, including codivergence in a historical biogeography context. In this study we aim to describe biogeographic and codivergent...

• Distribution of freshwater sponges and bryozoans in northwest Indiana

  Authors:David K. Barnes and Thomas E. LauerFrom:Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science (Vol. 112, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  July 29, 20033,048 words Article ABSTRACT. Current biogeographical distributions of freshwater sponges (Porifera) and bryozoans (Ectoprocta and Entoprocta) are poorly known in Indiana. Although seemingly ubiquitous in many aquatic communities, neither...

• Effects of a stand-replacing fire on small-mammal communities in montane forest

  Authors:Rafal Zwolak and Kerry R. ForesmanFrom:Canadian Journal of Zoology (Vol. 85, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20075,590 words Report 1380LAbstract: Wildfire, ubiquitous and recurring over thousands of years, is the most important natural disturbance in northern coniferous forest. Accordingly, forest fires may exert a strong influence on the structure and...